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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They can only f...
By Henry David Thoreau
I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes t...
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I have not yet learned to live, that I can see, and I fear that I shall not very soon. I find, however, that in the long run things correspond...
By Henry David Thoreau
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we 'mingle with the herd of common men.'
By Henry David Thoreau
I know of no studies so composing as those of the classical scholar. When we have sat down to them, life seems as still and serene as if it we...
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I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cru...
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I do believe that the outward and the inward life correspond; that if any should succeed to live a higher life, others would not know of it; t...
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I do not wish to see John ever again,—I mean him who is dead,—but that other, whom only he would have wished to see, or to be, of whom he ...
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I find that the respectable man, so called, has immediately drifted from his position, and despairs of his country, when his country has more ...
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I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.
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I have had a tragic correspondence, for the most part all on one side, with Miss _______. She did really wish to—I hesitate to write—marry...
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I have heard a good many pretend that they are going to die; or that they have died, for aught that I know. Nonsense! I'll defy them to do it....
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I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any ...
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I like well the ring of your last maxim, 'It is only the fear of death makes us reason of impossibilities.' And but for fear, death itself is ...
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I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead, to the last codic...
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I am astonished at the singular pertinacity and endurance of our lives. The miracle is, that what is is, when it is so difficult, if not impos...
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I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is.
By Henry David Thoreau
I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men, the former are so much the freer.
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I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some e...
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Hereabouts our Indian told us at length the story of their contention with the priest respecting schools. He thought a great deal of education...
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How vigilant we are! determined not to live by faith if we can avoid it; all the day long on the alert, at night we unwillingly say our prayer...
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Humor does not wear well. It is commonly enough said, that a joke will not bear repeating. The deepest humor will not keep. Humors do not circ...
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I already, and for weeks afterward, felt my nature the coarser for this part of my woodland experience, and was reminded that our life should ...
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He told me that the Indians were nearly all gone to the sea-board and to Massachusetts, partly on account of the smallpox—of which they are ...
By Henry David Thoreau